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Contact Info

Skills

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Plant Breeding, Experimental Design, breeding program management, variety selection and improvement

Experience in agronomic, disease and grain quality phenotypic data collection

Genomic prediction, genotype by environment analysis, genome wide association studies, spatial correction, and aerial imaging processing.

Highly proficient in R, microsoft office applications and git version control

Moderate proficiency in unix shell scripting and command line

Limited familiarity with python, SQL, docker, latex, css and html.

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Languages

English

Basic Proficiency in German(A2)

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Karl Hans Kunze PhD

To seek a position in plant breeding and genetics

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Education

Cornell University, Gradudate School

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PhD, Field of Plant Breeding and Genetics

Ithaca, NY

2017 - 2023

Dissertation: “Genomic and Phenotypic Characterization of Breeding Barley for New York State”

Cornell University, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

B.S. Plant Sciences Concentration in Plant Breeding and Genetics, minor in Buisness for the Life Sciences

Ithaca, NY

2013 - 2017

Research Projects

Measure components of weed competitive ability in organic naked barley variety trials by using field trait phenotypes and aerial imaging to measure barley vigor and growth over 4 trials and 2 years

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Field of Plant Breeding and Genetics, advisor Dr. Mark Sorrells

Ithaca, NY

2017 - 2023

Minors in Plant Pathology and Food Science

Dissertation: Genomic and phenotypic characterization of barley breeding in New York state

Cornell University, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

B.S. Plant Sciences

Ithaca, NY

2013 - 2017

Concentration in Plant Breeding and Genetics, minor in Buisness for the Life Sciences

Research Experience

Management of a novel winter malting barley breeding program for the New York State Environment

Ithaca, NY

2017 - 2023

Advanced a double haploid and recombinant inbred population starting with crosses in 2017. We currently have 25 lines being tested for a third year of yield trials and a preliminary yield trial consisting of 200 advanced double haploid lines and 200 Recombinant Inbred lines.

Conducted seed dormancy assays and genome wide association studies of 450 lines at two locations over two years. 5 timepoints were measured in 2020 and 8 timepoints measured in 2021.

Micromalted 240 winter barley over two timepoints at the USDA Cereal crops and research unit in Madison, WI. Malting quality resulted were used to inform selection decisions

Used genomic prediction, linear mixed models, spatial correction and genome wide association studies to advance lines and inform selection decisions

Organic Multi-use naked barley for New York and the Northern United States

Multi institutional project to characterize and develop naked barley for organic US systems

United States

2017 - 2022

Advanced a small population of covered by naked and naked by naked winter barley crosses to develop a naked barley variety adapted to New York conditions.

Performed genotype by environment analysis for eight naked barley trials across the northern United States

Performed a genome wide association analysis of 250 diverse lines across 13 environments for foliar disease resistance in natural field organic conditions

Used aerial imaging of a spring naked barley variety trial over two years to quantify barley growth over time as a precursor for competition with weeds.

Initialized a combined nested association population using three common parents across all collaborating institution and five parents specific to NY conditions.

Leadership Experience

Graduate Student representative for the board of the Crop Science Society of America

Serve as a liason between the CSSA leadership and the graduate student members of the society Currently serve on the tri society science policy committee

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2021 - 2023

Local graduate student liason for National Associaion of Plant Breeders graduate student working group

Coordinated graduate student working group to organize virtual events and connect to personel at Cornell University for the virtual 2021 NAPB meeting

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2020 - 2021

Cornell Plant Breeding and Genetics Graduate Student Association Professional Development Committee

Organized 4 virtual seminar chat series with graduate alumni of the Plant Breeding and Genetics program Invited speakers from various fields including, industry, academia, start ups and government research organizations

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2020 - 2021

Cornell Plant Breeding and Genetics Graduate Student Association(Synapsis)-President

Organized recruitment activities for 14 students applying to the Plant breeding and genetics PhD program Served as liason between graduate students and faculty

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2018 - 2019

Plant Breeding and Genetics faculty search committee

Served as the graduate student representative for the first year of the faculty search committee for the forages position.

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2018 - 2019

Corteva Symposium Committee Member

Organized Synapsis’ 8th Corteva Symposium “Common Plants for uncommon goals”

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2018 - 2019

Received symposium ideas and speaker recommendations from Synapsis, and integrated into a voted theme

Arranged flight and hotel accommodations for hosted speakers

Coordinated logistics of symposium planning

Multi cultural exchange workshop Cornell University, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology and the Technical University of Munich

Participated in developing presentations and presenting ideas with fellow students of different instiutions to develop a greater sense of collaboration

Ithaca, NY

Oct 2019

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Research Experience

Leadership Activities and Professional Services

Crop Science Society of America(CSSA) student member 2019 - present

National Association of Plant Breeders (NAPB) student member 2020- present

New York State Agriculture Society member 2017 - present

Cornell Plant Breeding and Genetics Graduate Student Association, Synapsis

Alumni of Alpha Gamma Rho, Professional and Social Agricultural Fraternity, Zeta Chapter

Awards and grants received

Graduate student of USDA OREI grants program I and II “Developing Multi-use Naked Barley for Organic Systems”

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2017 - 2023

“Genetic Characterization of Germination Traits and Their Relationship to Preharvest Sprouting in Winter and Spring Barley”

American Malting Barley Association grant award of $11,500 for characterization of seed dormancy and malting quality of winter and spring barley populations

NY & WI, USA

2020-2022

“Cornell Plant Breeding and Genetics Munger-Murphy Award”

An award given to a current cornell plant breeding student showcasing academic excellence and dedicated field research work

Ithaca, NY

August 2022

Selected Publications and Posters

Genetic and epigenetic signals are found predictive to the distribution of intra-individual divergence of alternative splicing.

Poster for 2013 International Conference of Genomics

/Qingdao, China

2014

Yu L, Chen B, Zhang Z.

ESCRT-0 complex modulates Rbf mutant cell survival by regulating Rhomboid endosomal trafficking and EGFR signaling.

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Professional Societies

Crop Science Society of America(CSSA)

National Association of Plant Breeders (NAPB)

Cornell Plant Breeding and Genetics Graduate Student Association, Synapsis

New York State Agriculture Society

Alumni of Alpha Gamma Rho, Professional and Social Agricultural Fraternity, Zeta Chapter

Skills

Highly experienced in processing, analysis, organization, and experimental design of field trials of a novel barley breeding program

Field data collection, including agronomic phenotypes, aerial imaging collection, seed germination and malting quality

Highly proficient in data analysis to integrate phenotypic and genotypic data for mapping, genomic prediction and section decisions

Five years of experience managing a novel winter malting breeding program and organic naked barley program for New York State

Demonstrated collaboration of working with multiple research institutions for multi collaborative national grant projects

Highly proficient in R, moderate proficiency in command line and unix shell scripting, and minor proficiency in python.

Selected Publications and Presentations

Interaction of Pre-harvest sprouting, germination rate and malting quality for winter and facultative malting barley”

Presentation for the 43rd Barley Improvement Conference and Tri -Societies Confernce

UC Davis, CA & Baltimore, MD, United States

2022

Kunze K, Rooney T., Sweeney D., Sorrells M.

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J Cell Sci. 2016 May 15;129(10):2075-84.

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2016

Sheng Z, Yu L, Zhang T, Pei X, Li X, Zhang Z and Du W.